NC-17 rating overturned on Ryan Gosling's 'Blue Valentine'

Associated PressActors Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling attend the premiere of "Blue Valentine" at the Museum of Modern Art on Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2010 in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling's upcoming drama, "Blue Valentine," has won an appeal of its adults-only NC-17 rating and will go into theaters with an R-rating instead. Motion Picture Association of American spokeswoman Elizabeth Kaltman says the rating was lowered Wednesday after the group's appeals board viewed the film and heard arguments from Harvey Weinstein, whose Weinstein Co. is releasing it.

The marital drama initially drew the NC-17 rating for a "scene of explicit sexual content."

An NC-17 rating would have prohibited those under 17 from attending and essentially would have been a kiss of death for the film, as that rating is equated with pornography in many movie-goers' minds.

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